Its been a while, but I'm pretty sure there is a button that says something like "switch to multiplayer/skirmish admirals" that you need to click to see your admirals before entering the battle. I've missed it the first time I tried to use the feature as well.

Greetings NickEcho, Are you sure your damaged ship had no beacon on it? It would explain why your opponent can still see you. After several tests, the detection range seems to work correctly. We looked at your screenshot and it suggests the enemy ship is just outside the detection range: torpedoes ...

Styx got revealed. I moved out of range of enemy detection yet it could not become hidden again. There were no beacons enemy ships in range to detect. Enemy ship in the screenshot is a tau escort with no range upgrade. As you can see, Tzeentch warp signature echo is disabled and enemy homing torpedo...

Talking about persistent mode. In my opinion renown is one of the 3 major flaws that are driving away the new people. (Other 2 being random missions and ship unlock and leveling system). It is disheartening for new players after the inevitable first losses to look at the defeat screen and see all/mo...